A jet card is a block of private jet flight hours that you buy in advance at a fixed hourly rate.

You purchase the hours upfront, then draw them down as you fly.

Each time you take a trip, the flight time is deducted from your balance. It is the simplest way to fly private on a fixed rate without buying or sharing an aircraft.

Jet cards sit between one-off charter and aircraft ownership.

Charter means booking and pricing each trip from scratch.

Ownership, whether full or fractional, means putting capital into an aircraft and taking on its costs.

A jet card gives you a set rate and a set process for every flight, with none of the capital outlay of ownership.

How a Jet Card Works

The mechanics are consistent across the industry, with the details varying by program.

• You buy a set number of hours. At Jets.com, Access Pass starts at 25 hours.
• Your hourly rate is locked at the time of purchase, so it does not move with the market while you fly through your hours.
• When you want to travel, you request a flight and the time is deducted from your balance.
• The aircraft is sourced from a network of trusted operators rather than a single fixed fleet, which means you can match the cabin to the trip.

What Is Included in a Jet Card

Jets.com prices its Jet Card as all-inclusive.

All-inclusive means the quoted hourly rate already covers Federal Excise Tax and the standard fees that apply to a typical domestic flight, so the number you are quoted is the number you pay.

There are no fuel surcharges layered on top.

A small number of items sit outside the quoted rate. These are things like fees tied to major events at certain airports or taxes that apply to international segments.

When they apply they are disclosed before you fly, never added after the fact.

Who a Jet Card Suits

A jet card tends to make sense once you are flying private often enough that pricing every trip individually becomes a chore.

As a rough guide, travelers who fly somewhere in the range of 25 hours or more a year often find a card simpler and more predictable than booking trip by trip.

Below that, on-demand charter may fit better. The right answer depends on how often you fly and how much you value a fixed rate and a single point of contact.

How the Jets.com Jet Card Works

The Jets.com Jet Card comes in two tiers. Access Pass is prepaid flight hours at a fixed rate. Access+ lets you deposit once and fly any cabin class at your locked rate, with fewer peak-days, shorter callout windows, and priority scheduling.

Because Jets.com sources aircraft from a network of operators rather than a single fleet, your hours give you access to a wide range of operators and cabin classes rather than one aircraft type.

Your hours never expire, as long as you use the card at least once every two years.

There are no fuel surcharges, and pricing is all-inclusive of Federal Excise Tax and standard fees.